Re: [PATCH v4] mm/memblock: fix overlapping allocation when doubling reserved array

Andrew Morton
2012-06-19T22:21:49Z

On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:00:22 +0000
"Pearson, Greg" <greg.pearson@hp.com> wrote:

> I wasn't quite sure what to do about that at first either, I read
> "Documentation/SubmittingPatches" and it says:
>
> "The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the
> development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path."
>
> Since Yinghai contributed some code that is in the current version of
> the patch I thought the "Signed-off-by" tag would be ok, but if
> something else is more appropriate I have no problem re-cutting the
> patch to make the chain of custody more clear.

Yup, we shouldn't expect people to be able to magically infer
fine-grained details such as this from hints embedded in the signoff
trail. Fortunately we can write stuff in English ;)

I added

: This patch contains contributions from Yinghai Lu.

to the changelog. Simple, huh? :)